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Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the "notifiers" who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along their former best friend and her former lover Avram. Avram served in the army alongside...

"Examining the story of how Private Lynch was rescued in Iraq"--

Early in the Civil War, Louisiana's Confederate government sanctioned a militia unit of black troops, the Louisiana Native Guards. Intended as a response to demands from members of New Orleans' substantial free black population that they be permitted to participate in the defense of their state, the unit was used by Confederate authorities for public display and propaganda purposes but was not allowed to fight. After the fall of New Orleans, General...

Presents a biography of the school teacher turned Revolutionary War soldier who served as an American spy and was captured and eventually executed by the British army.

"'El secuestrador ha muerto, la jaula queda abierta y no siento el impulso de salir sino el p�anico a que alguien desconocido entre por esa puerta. Ahora, c�omo vamos a vivir sin alguien que nos diga lo que tenemos que hacer.' Las l�ineas anteriores resumen de un trazo el estado parad�ojico de la Cuba de hoy, liberada y hu�erfana al mismo tiempo tras la muerte de Fidel Castro. Varias generaciones de cubanos sacrificaron buena parte de sus...

The journal of a Union soldier describes battles and events

Compelled to commit a murder to repay a debt to the man in prison who kept him alive, ex-convict Charlie Rankin experiences a crisis of conscience after he falls for a woman who sees the good inside him; when a British soldier is recalled from Afghanistan to identify the remains of his daughter, he discovers the body is not his daughter, but she has gone missing; veteran soldier Thomas Conrad is kidnapped by a drug cartel and is told that his wife...

Three days after one of the fiercest battles of World War II, Captain Miller and his surviving men think that they can relax. But they are wrong! They are sent behind enemy lines to find one man -- Private Ryan -- and bring him safely home. But how many will survive the mission?" --cover. "It's June 9 1944, three days after D-Day. On the orders of the government, Captain John Miller and his men go to look for Private James Ryan. They must bring him...

"It is as if Chen has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it, re-creating Joan of Arc as a woman for our time."--Hilary Mantel, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Booker Prize winner Wolf Hall "This is not your grandmother's St. Joan. . . . If every generation gets the Joan it deserves, ours could do worse than an ass-kicking, avenging angel fighting simply for the right to fight."--The New York Times Book Review 1412. France is...